Usually when our Oracle VM pool needs more disk space we create new repositories and then we proceed to create our new guests or we extend our virtual-disks.

Sometimes customers ask us to extend one repository instead of create a new one.

I would like to clarify that add one repository is always safer than extend an existing one; this blog post is purely demonstrative that "extend" is possible and it works; remember to take a full repository backup before to extend it.

This guide can be used on release 3.0.x. ( starting from release 3.1.1 extend repository by Oracle VM Manager is faster, safer and supported ).

In this example we will extend a repository of 250 GB to 300 GB. Here you'll find the four easy steps:

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Simon Coter is a Consulting Technical Manager for Oracle. He works on projects covering more Oracle products such as Oracle Database, eBusiness Suite, Oracle VM, Oracle Linux, Oracle ExaData and much more.